Liquidity Risk

In the first instalment of a two-part series, GCMS’ Saheed Awan explains the likely implications of Basel III on collateral management activities including liquidity management.

Metro Bank PLC, Britain's first new High Street bank in over 100 years, has selected SunGard’s Ambit Asset Liability Management (ALM) solution. To support its client service proposition, Metro Bank will use Ambit ALM to help it maximize its net interest income, by helping it ensure the accurate measurement and management of asset-liability gaps and basis risk during this period of low interest rates and acute margin compression.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), the leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Krung Thai Bank has selected Fiserv for asset/liability, market risk, interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk and daily bank-wide liquidity risk management. 

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), the leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that RHB Banking Group (RHB) has chosen Fiserv to support the bank's interest-rate risk and liquidity risk management strategies. 

With more than US $43 billion in assets, RHB has seven distinct strategic business groups, with headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. RHB is focused on enhancing its risk infrastructure and analytics bank-wide to help ensure continued growth as Malaysia's economy regains momentum. 

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued Basel III frequently asked questions. To promote consistent global implementation of Basel III, the Committee has agreed to periodically review frequently asked questions and publish answers along with any technical elaboration of the rules text and interpretative guidance that may be necessary.

Energy and Environmental Broker Looks to Streamline Interaction with Traders, Prepare for Dodd-Frank Implementation 

Pivot Inc., the leading provider of liquidity management and collaboration software to financial market participants, today announced that energy and environmental markets broker Evolution Markets Inc. will roll out its Pivot 360 product to the firm’s entire US broker team. 

Basel III, Liquidity risk, stress tests, IFRS…: Financial Studio 4.0 empowers financial institutions with an enhanced single integrated platform for risk, finance and compliance. 

FinArch, international leader for integrated risk and finance solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the release of Financial Studio 4.0, the latest version of the market leading software product that uniquely integrates risk, finance and compliance. 

Fitch Solutions says CDS market uncertainty surrounding the results of upcoming European bank stress tests has led to increased CDS liquidity during the last month for banks in Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. 

SunGard today announced that it has acquired PredictiveMetrics, a provider of predictive scoring and analytical services for trade credit, debt collections, utilities and other markets. The acquisition will help extend SunGard’s AvantGard suite of receivables solutions to offer statistical scoring services that help organizations proactively analyze the credit and collection worthiness and likelihood of delinquency or payment across their receivables portfolio.